Review:This is a very good general account of Carthage. Aimed at a broad audience, this is probably a good summary of recent scholarship on Carthage. Any book on Carthage faces the major obstacle of the rather limited information on Carthage. Surviving Carthaginian documentation is scanty with the great majority of historical information coming from partial Greek and Roman historian supplemented by epigraphic and archaeological data. A good deal of this book is a careful recounting and analysis of ... Read more

Review:The book is a towering work and this audio version makes it easier to digest. The narrators style is appropriate but perhaps a little too fast as the text demands your attention - which is why I have only given it four stars, .The book itself deserves SIX stars. If you get distracted for a few moments, you can often find you have missed a key moment in the story. I have tried to slow it down on my iPhone, but the slowed version sounds like the narrator has suffered a partial stroke, and the voic... Read more

Review:I have only read about 25% of this book since it is a very large one (over 1000 pages), but I can say The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is one of the best history books I have ever read.
Thought English is not my native language, the book is, with a few exceptions, very easy to read. It is loaded with a lot of history since it covers over 1000 years, but this fact does not give you a headache if you are not into learning everything in it.
The book covers the histo... Read more

Review:This is a disappointing book that mostly confines its "what if" questions to speculations about the absence of Clausewitzian friction. In short, if things were different, they would have been different.

There are a couple of good essays amongst the chaff. The first essay on WWI speculates about a delayed British entry into the ground campaign and about the effects if Germany kept a strong right and did not push the French out of the sack by attacking Nanci. John Keegan's essay on Germa... Read more

Review:This is fascinating and explains the many nationalities and their personality traits of my ancestors, relatives, and friends, who are Northerners and Southerners: Some are Yankees (Wisconsin, Minnesota, northeast Iowa), some are Midlands (south central Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana), some are Appalachians (Tennessee), some are Far Westerners (North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming), some are Left Coasters (Oregon, California) and some are Southern (transplants living in Georgia and North Carolina). I... Read more

Review:This book is brilliant and highly entertaining.Our book group read and discussed it for months of fastinating conversation.
Deeply spiritual without any artiface. She brings Oneness to light in new and refreshing ways. Read more

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Review:When you plan ahead for a Christmas or Hanukkah gift for a youngster who is learning about the world, this is that book to get. The maps are first class, the book is over sized and makes perusing a pleasure. Now, I am a history buff and learned a lot about Cartography (map making) while reading this book. Maps have been around for centuries and it seems that they were made originally by religious folks to explain areas where they had an interest. This book encompasses the world and does so w... Read more

Review:If you haven't read anything by Robert Kaplan, then go out & buy on of his books. He knows the subject well & has a delightful writing style. I have read every one of his books & highly recommend them. Read more

Review:This book caught my attention when I read the title & ordered it immediately. My brother's best friend in school was 6'8" and he had 2 cousins just as tall or taller. It was a bit of a handicap for them in those days (1960's) because the rest of world was so much shorter and it was challenging for them to live with the American standard. I wonder now if those 3 tall handsome guys share the DNA of the giants in this book. Thank you Richard Dewhurst for digging up the truth about the "giant" ... Read more